Eragrostis.) CXLIV. GRAMINES. 647 
nearly central on each side and prominent. aes shorter than the 
game, incurved, the keels usually minutely cili Stamens usually 3, 
ut sometimes only 2 even in the larger a Fp i Grain ovo! g, 
ien. -—Poa Polymer “pha, R. Br. Prod. 180; Megastachya polymorpha, 
eauv. Agrost. 74; Poa Brownii, Kunth, finum. 1.383. 
Rive ia. Islands of the ge: of Carpentaria, R. B ifi Mane t Victoria 
ver and Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller ; Dampier's Archipelago, Wales Port Essing- 
n Armstrong ; Port Darwin [347 n. 210, 312, 453. orthern specimens 
th efly with rather large scattered or ped dustebed ipd aig [ju have sometimes 
e leaf-sheaths slightly hairy, whic rà utes the Poa pubescens, R. Br. Prod. 181; 
d d. 
S 
1 ueensland, Prince of Wales Lid: and Keppel Ba Nu Brown ; numer 
ocalities in northern and southern Queensland and in the interior, 4. dunvingham 
z oit Jf Gillivra; Y, Boso Oo Shane a and many others, with very numero 
5 Wales. Port Jackson, = Br OWN, ge = cruda pini — d, 
bei; Liverpool pem ns, C. Moore; Clarence River, Wil d River, 
Fawcett ; Lachlan Darling Ri m i? Ounvingham,  Dailachy y pin: p chiefly 
with small spikelets 
Victoria. Dan enong Ranges, King, Murray and Ovens Rivers, F. Mueller ; 
Glenelg erat Mier tson. 
W. Australia, Blackwood River, Walcot; Murchison River, Oldfield. 
Var. M ta. A lant, often 3 or 4 ft. hi with long flat leaves and 
i arger plant, often 3 0 gh, lee tat Be 
I 
large Spikelets in dense distinct clu sters,— Poa interrupta, R. Pr. - 
grostis dre Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 27 eavour qiie n and Solander ; 
Hervey Bay, R. Brown ; f heat: River, Wileos ; 'Tweed River, C. Moore; alsoin 
Leichhardt s yen d al 
Spikelets rat ther small, most of them 
ar. patens. Panicle loose, often spreadi 
x p 2M R. Brown, Woolls and others ; 
Var 
shortly hore tt —Port Jackson and Blue Mountains, 
Victoria, F. Muell 
The species appears tobe widely spread in East India er — | probably di — 
E. zeylanica, Nees, and some others, and comes very clos 
E, Urvillei, Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 279, from deg Holland, D Urville, is pss to 
me, but there is nothing in Steudel's diagnosis to distinguish it from. E. Bro 
2. E. concinna, Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 279.—A rigid tufted grass 
dew: l ft. and often under 6 6 in. high. Leaves convolute, vetet 
e 
m 
articulate. Flowering glumes closely distichous, r: 
long, the lateral ducto Je the middle o e very F prominent 
Palea rather broad, the keels ciliate especially in the up 
long rigid cilia. Stamens 2, with very small anthers.—Poa concinna, 
Prod. 180 
. Br. 
Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown Sten to his 
herbarium, but mace in the Prodromus by mistake as from Port Jackson : 
Central Australia. Lake Eyre, abies Lewis. 
